Elkanati ring



(No Model.)

E. RING. WHIP CENTER.

No. 417,203. Patented Deo. l0, 1889.

u PETERS. Pham-ummm, washington. n.1;

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ELKANAH RING, OF VESTFIELD, MASSACHUSETS, ASSIGNOR T() JAMES NoELE, JR., or sAME PLACE.

WHIP-CENTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 417,203, dated December 10, 1889.

Application iiled August 28, 1889. Serial No. 322,201. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ELKANAH RING, a citi zen of the United States, residing at Westfield, in the county of l-Iampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and usefulv Improvements in Vhip-Centers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention in whips relates particularly to the center or core thereof, the object being to provide in the whip a center which renders to the whip peculiar capabilities of retraction from deflection, durability, and economy; and the invention consists i-n the construction and combination of parts forming the whip-center, and of other parts combined therewith to form a whip, all. substantially as will hereinafter more fully appear, and be set forth in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which whips constructed in accordance with this invention are illustrated.

Figure l is a side view and central longi tudinal section of a portion of a whip. Fig. 2 is a similar view toFig. l, but showinga portion of the whip toward the tip and slightly modified as to the arrangement of the parts, but involving the same essentials of const-ruction and composition. Fig. 3 is a view of a strip of metal from which thewhip-center is in part made up.

In the drawings, A represents the center; l5, the sidin applied over the center, as usual, and C the outer plaited covering. The center A consists, primarily, of a tube l), preferabi)T of equal diameter throughout, formed from a strip of sheet metal having therein a longitudinal groove or corrugation d, and substantially of the form shown in Fig. 3, said strip being wound spirally and the corrugation or groove forming, when the Astrip is wound spirally to constitute the tube, a spirallyrunning groove and also a rib in the walls thereof. The center consists, secondarily, in combination with the tube formed as above, of a filling a of flexible material-such as wh alebone, rattan, rawhide, or leather-inclosed within said spirally-corrugated center proper. The said center is intended to extend from the butt-end of the whip to the portion thereof at which the tip, so called,

commences, and the said lilling a is projected therefrom farther and constitutes the tip, or t-he tip-center.

The tubular center may be formed with the groove inside, as shown in Fig. 1 and the filling of iiexible material may be disposed spirally within the internal spiral groove, being laid in the eorrugating groove of the strip from which the core is to be formed, and wound spirally therewith; or, as shown in Fig. 2, the tubular center may have the iilling a in the form ot' a rod formed from the flexible material, substantially such as specified,and disposed axially within the spirally-formed and grooved coretube; and in the said Fig. 2 the core is shown as wound with its corrugation or groove exterioriy, whereby an internal spiral rib is formed, and which exerts more or less of a spring-pressure on the said strip of filling.

In the manufacture of the center of the particular construction just described the corrugated strip, of a sufficient length and which may have been produced in any of the wellknown ways of corrugated sheet metal, is first rolled or wound spirally on a mandrel, or otherwise, to form the tubular center. The filling or axial core-strip, which is usually of a length greater than that of the tubular center proper and of an even diameter except at its forward end, which is tapered to constitute a tip or tip-center, is then drawn through the spirally-formed tube, the coils of said tube expanding against a spring reaction to permit of the insertion of said core or iilling-strip, and lying by the internal spirallycoursed rib on said strip with a retractivc spring-bearing.

The above-described corrugated feature of the said spirallywound metal strip conduces to a much-improved spring action to more quickly and forcibly straighten the whip after deiiection, and the projecting spiral rib of said metal strip, by its engagement with the adjoining Whip-sidings, prevents any crawling movement of the core within the whip.

lith the center having substantially parallel sides, and the illing extending forward beyond the end thereof fora suitable distance, the whip is then made up inthe usual manner, the sidings of rattan o-r other lOO material employed being tapered to give the proper form to the Whip, and may or may not, at the option of the maker, be extended to cover thepart of the filling-stri p which is projeeted beyond the end of the spirallyformed metallic tube b.

The Whip is to be 'Iinished up by plaitin.;` or otherwise, in any ot' the usual manners.

What I claim as my invention isl. A Whip-core eonsistingof a flat metallic band having a longitudinal a'roove or corrugation therein wound spirally, thereby forming a tube having therein a spiral seam and a spiral rib and channel, combined with a lling` of flexible material, as whalebone, rawhide, or the like, inelosed within said spirallyformed metallic tube, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. A w11 ip consisting ot' a core formed of a ilat metallic band having a longitudinal groove or eorrugation therein Wound spirally, constituting a tube havingr a spiral seam and a Spiral rib and channel therein, and aiillinf,r of flexible material, as whalebone, rawhide, or the like, inelosed Within said spirallyformed metallic tube and extended forwardly beyond the end thereof to form the tip-center, and the tapered sidings applied around said core and tip-center, substal'it-ially as and for the purpose Set forth.

ELKANAH RING.

Witnesses:

WM. S. BELLoWs` G. M. CHAMBERLAIN. 

